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NHL Week 1 · 2026-27

2025-26 regular season · November 9, 2025

No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.

Blackhawks at Red Wings, Nov 9, 2025: who deserved to win?

The Blackhawks beat the Red Wings 5–1, a result the replays rarely give: with the way both teams actually played, the Red Wings win 9 of 10. Luck ran their way: shooting alone was worth 60 points of win probability to the Blackhawks.

The biggest swing (P2, 16:38 left): Teuvo Teravainen scored on a snap shot from 36 feet, worth 18 points of win probability to the Blackhawks.

Final

Chicago Blackhawks 5
Detroit Red Wings 1

November 9, 2025 · Little Caesars Arena

Luck index +85 Blackhawks very lucky · −85 Red Wings

Each team’s own shots from this game, resampled into new games 4,000 times, each a goal at its chance, with the power plays the penalties gave and the pulled goalie at the end: with the way both teams actually played, how often does this performance win? How the replay works

Ten replays. Blackhawks win 1, Red Wings win 9.

  1. 1 CHI 4 DET 3
  2. 2 CHI 2 DET 3
  3. 3 CHI 2 DET 4
  4. 4 CHI 1 DET 4
  5. 5 CHI 2 DET 5
  6. 6 CHI 1 DET 5
  7. 7 CHI 2 DET 6
  8. 8 CHI 2 DET 7
  9. 9 CHI 1 DET 7
  10. 10 CHI 0 DET 8

Three other ways to ask

Each answers a different question, so none of them replaces the replay above.

No closing line for this game.

Needs the closing line, which this game has not got.

Every shot redrawn at its chance, overtime and the shootout replayed as near coin flips; the shots themselves and every call fixed. The narrowest view of luck.

How 4,000.1 replays ended

Blackhawks win 15% of them, Red Wings 85%. The line is what actually happened: Blackhawks by 4.

Show as a table
Final margin in the replaysShare of replays
Blackhawks by 3+2.2%
Blackhawks by 22.6%
Blackhawks by 110.1%
Red Wings by 111.8%
Red Wings by 28.7%
Red Wings by 3+64.6%

Where the luck was

What the luck was worth

Every lucky and unlucky play, weighted by the moment it happened: its swing in win probability, added up by kind. A post hit in a blowout counts for nothing; the same post with a minute left in a tie game can be most of a win.

Swings add up across a game, so in one that went back and forth they can pass 100%. On the scoreboard the same luck was worth +5.4 goals to the Blackhawks: the final margin was Blackhawks by 4, without the luck Red Wings by 1.4. Luck shares are the fitted ones (how much of each kind is luck).
ShootingUnblocked attemptsGoalsExpected goalsAbove expected
Blackhawks2541.74+2.26
Red Wings6715.37−4.37

Regulation with both goalies in. Expected goals: our model of each shot’s chance from where and how it was taken (distance, angle, shot type, rebound, rush, strength), adjusted for the shooter’s and the goalie’s records. A team above expected finished better or met a weaker night in goal; 75% of the gap counts as luck (why that share).

Calls

Every penalty that put a team on the power play, and every goal taken off the board on review, with what it did to the helped team’s chance of winning at that moment. Calls don’t count toward luck by default: who draws penalties repeats from game to game like a skill (how calls are valued). Switch them on below.

WhenCallWin probability for
P1 19:34 Tripping on the Red Wings (Dylan Larkin): 2 minutes on the power play +4% CHI
P1 10:14 Interference on the Blackhawks (Connor Murphy): 2 minutes on the power play +4% DET
P1 0:49 Roughing on the Blackhawks (Connor Murphy): 2 minutes on the power play +4% DET
P2 17:09 Roughing on the Red Wings (Travis Hamonic): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CHI
P2 3:36 Unsportsmanlike conduct on the Blackhawks (Tyler Bertuzzi): 4 minutes on the power play +9% DET
P3 15:06 Slashing on the Red Wings (Simon Edvinsson): 2 minutes on the power play +5% CHI
P3 14:23 Tripping on the Blackhawks (Louis Crevier): 2 minutes on the power play +2% DET

When it happened

Red Wings’ chance of winning

As low as 0% and as high as 54%. Numbers mark the biggest luck moments, listed below.

Our in-game win probability: the score and the time left, starting from the betting line (or the home edge alone when there is none), with goals at the league’s rates for the score. Overtime is drawn at a fixed width. Shaded above the middle while the Red Wings were ahead in it, below while the Blackhawks were.
#WhenWhat happenedWin probability forNext drive
1 P1 19:01 Connor Bedard scored on a snap shot from 35 feetShooting · 8% chance +15% CHI –
2 P1 15:41 Dylan Larkin scored on a wrist shot from 5 feetShooting · 27% chance +12% DET –
3 P2 18:50 Lucas Raymond’s wrist shot from 5 feet was savedShooting · 33% chance +6% CHI –
4 P2 16:38 Teuvo Teravainen scored on a snap shot from 36 feetShooting · 8% chance +18% CHI –
5 P2 3:36 Unsportsmanlike conduct on the Blackhawks (Tyler Bertuzzi): 4 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +9% DET –
6 P2 2:44 Alex DeBrincat missed the net with a snap shot from 13 feetShooting · 22% chance +5% CHI –
7 P3 15:06 Slashing on the Red Wings (Simon Edvinsson): 2 minutes on the power playPenalty calls +5% CHI –
8 P3 14:51 Tyler Bertuzzi scored on a wrist shot from 4 feetShooting · 34% chance +11% CHI –

Adjust the assumptions

Think finishing is more skill than we do, or that the calls were luck? Change it and the coin-flip replay reruns in your browser.

Only coin-flips re-rolled

Blackhawks 19% · Red Wings 81%

Final margin
Blackhawks by 4
Luck in goals
5.4 for the Blackhawks
Luck-adjusted margin
Red Wings by 1.4
Replay with same day's form
Blackhawks 15% · Red Wings 85% unchanged: why
How much of each is luck?

0% treats it as skill, 100% as pure luck. The tick is our fit.

What counts
Flip a play

Force the other outcome, in this game and in every replay: a goal becomes a save, a post goes in, a penalty goes the other way.

About these numbers

Play-by-play from the NHL via fastRhockey; expected goals, in-game win probability and the replays are our own models, fitted on every game since 2018-19 (methodology and validation). Blocked shots aren’t replayed (their location is the block’s, not the shot’s). No betting line for this game, so there is no before-puck-drop or fresh-game number.

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